Challenges Facing Children With Hearing Impairment In Regular Primary Schools In Ekerenyo Division

ABSTRACT

The learners who are hearing impaired have for years been stigmatized

although their potentiality in performing duties does not differ from that

of non-hearing impaired learners. In our learning institutions, both

teachers and follow learners have always despised these learners. The

teachers take little care or no care to these learners. What they have

done so far is to stigmatize them. They have been labeled with all sorts of

adjectives that are so discouraging and not motivating at all. They refer

to them as slow learners, idiots, semi-deaf and many adjectives.

Due to this, the researcher resorted to researching on the problems

facing the hearing impaired learners. If these problems are identified,

then ways of solving them will be found.

As concerns the methods used for the collection of information from the respondents, the researchers will use mainly questionnaires, however,

observation will also be used. As a teacher and being with these learners

and because he will take the questionnaire out, he could get more

information through observation. This is more especially from the

reaction of the respondent: as they will ask questions for clarifications.

The researcher will mainly deal with one group of respondents who are teachers. He specifically chose this group of respondents because they are the ones who handle the hearing impaired learners in school. To the researchers, this is the group of respondents that could give the most appropriate result of the problems facing these learners.